A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing — LAS VEGAS — You've heard of Amazon.com's Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid.

Thoughts on what an Apple tablet should be - or not — My Wednesday began with a worried focus on tablet computers. — Before lunchtime I closed my eyes, commended my soul to God, and bought roundtrip airfare to San Francisco for the last week of January. — And why? Has Apple announced a press event that week?

Did Apple just become a whole lot nicer to iPhone devs? — With a new year come New Year's resolutions: It appears as if Apple's review teams not only became incredibly fast, they also seem to have changed some processes to the better. — Scattered reports on Twitter indicate …

Software Sea Change — 2,000,000 Strong — Over the week covering this past Christmas Day a piece of software I had contributed to was downloaded two million times. — I've been writing Pop Software for my entire professional career. I may be the first to coin the term Pop Software …

DIY Touchscreen Analysis — The success of the iPhone has triggered the adoption of touchscreen systems in a wide range of mobile devices, and a bevy of new gadgets equipped with capacitive sensing technology have now hit the market. MOTO has years of experience developing products …

Obama: Software Flaws Let Christmas Bomber Get Through — Crappy government software — and failure to use that software right — almost got 289 people killed in the botched Christmas day bombing. — “Information sharing does not appear to have contributed to this intelligence failure …